A River of News

Tech headlines, October 29, 2026, 16:00 UTC

15 items in this hour. Whole day.

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  1. Thursday, October 29, 2026

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    Tomas Mikolov (creator of Word2Vec) receives the Medal of Merit Hacker News
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    U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO TechCrunch by Julie Bort story
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    For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue Hacker News story
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    Toxic Experts Hacker News
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    Are stochastic parrots alive? Hacker News
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    Firefox and Chrome patch 200+ security flaws combined – update both ASAP ZDNET by Lance Whitney
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    BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals The Register
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    Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads Ars Technica by Ryan Whitwam story
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    Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction TechCrunch by Marina Temkin
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    SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles TechCrunch by Ivan Mehta
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    16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive Hacker News
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    This open-source project lets you sync Withings data to other apps without a subscription The Verge (limited free articles) by Andrew Liszewski
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    ThermoWorks debuts shorter version of its RFX Meat wireless probe for small cuts Engadget
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    Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT for $7.6 billion The Verge (limited free articles) by Emma Roth story
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    Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs The Verge (limited free articles) by Tom Warren story